You may have already seen the latest Gillette commercial. It has provoked quite a reaction. I'm sure you have your own opinion of it. Reading through the hundreds of comments left on various posts, it seems to me that a lot of the feedback is negative. People don't like it.
In a previous article, I talked about how we could approach marketing a luxury good-type product that falls in the lower left quadrant. Let's revisit the Need/Frequency Matrix and look at the opposite side. The top right quadrant.
A Need/Frequency matrix can be super-useful when planning our marketing strategy. By plotting products and services on the matrix, we can identify the nuances of our marketing funnel and tweak the plan accordingly.
Advertising isn’t simply about calling a product or service to people’s attention anymore. It can’t be. With all the noise out there in the digital marketplace, advertising needs to be something much bigger. It needs to be inextricably tied with branding and marketing.
